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A lot of column inches have been dedicated to the gender pay gap in top level jobs, but new research has found that this pay gap appears much sooner than originally thought.

We know it’s wrong, but sometimes it’s just so tempting. Those magic words ‘would you like to save 15% on your purchases?’ seem immediately to cause the voice of rationality to be silenced, and before you know it, you’ve spent 15 minutes filling out a form and you’re the proud (or ashamed) owner of a brand new store card.

Oxford University has found itself embroiled in a fierce debate over an event due to be held next Monday by the Oxford Union.

If you could choose your university's Chancellor, who would it be? Oxford University’s Chancellor is Chris Patten; Cambridge has the Duke of Edinburgh. But Liverpool John Moores has gone for another type of royalty altogether. Brian May, guitarist with Queen, to be precise.

Universities, as we all know, are often short of cash. It’s one thing they’ve got in common with the people that attend them. Students often find novel and imaginative ways of making money, and it appears universities are following suit.

Temporary contracts remain the norm for academic staff, the University and Colleges Union (UCU) has found, calling the problem the ‘unacceptable underbelly of higher education’.

The UK’s top universities are admitting increasing numbers of independent school pupils, despite efforts to broaden participation of students

Last month, it was found that the number of pupils from fee-paying schools getting in to top universities has risen in the past year.

‘Vod-bull’ has quickly become a staple of student drinking life. It almost seems specifically designed to appeal to those who have had a few too many late nights and hard days, but are still dead-set on going out again. Red bull to keep you awake, vodka to give you the alcohol-induced energy.

Oxford University must attract more black students to preserve its ‘integrity’, US civil rights leader Rev Jesse Jackson has said.

If you see yourself as a budding Richard Branson or Stelios, what was it that inspired your entrepreneurial ambition? Parents? School? University? If you’ve answered the latter, you’re probably in the minority.

It used to be politics or religion, but now money has become the most controversial topic of discussion in the twenty first century, a report by Fool.co.uk has indicated.

Cambridge University newspaper ‘Varsity’ produced a worrying report today, revealing that students were working as prostitutes to fund their lifestyle and their study.

Exeter University has been named the University of the Year by the Times Higher Education Supplement.

Keele University is being criticised this week after disclosing plans to sack half of the staff at its School of Economic and Management Studies.

The three or four years at University are traditionally supposed to be the years in which alcohol features most prominently.

A new online resource aims to make finding a part-time job a less painful process for students.

Most of us feel pretty happy with ourselves if we get that coursework in on time, do a decent session in the library or get a good mark for an exam.

Young people whose family has never been to university are being urged by the government to ‘be the first to go’.

Freshers’ week: a potent combination of alcohol, fast food and little sleep. But the effects of this hedonistic rampage may be more serious than sleep deprivation and a less than spotless lecture attendance record.

The choice of what A-levels you take may be just as important as the grades you get, new plans from Cambridge and the London School of Economics suggest.